Design Quotes · Page 33

My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.

— Pierre Cardin

One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line…

— Mary Quant

Content informs design; design without content is decoration.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

— Jane McGonigal

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

— Charles Bukowski

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

— Jane Jacobs

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

— George Crabbe

A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun.

— Paul Reiche III

I made an urban-looking bicycle that could stand up to potholes. Of course, it was stolen instantly - proof of the genius…

— David Linley

Everything in that era of the 1930s was built to last - cars, buildings, weapons. There was so much passion in everything…

— Finn Cole

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

— Fred Brooks

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who…

— Victor Papanek

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words,…

— Beatrice Warde

An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises…

— Dieter Rams

Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm…

— David Karp

Understand now what lying is. Any species of designed deception. If the deception is not designed it is not lying. But if…

— Charles Grandison Finney

I just think of couture clothing as wearable art. So from - to that extent I, you know, I love having the…

— Debra Messing

I'm not modest about myself. I know for a fact that I am good. But good in the sense that I can…

— Julius Shulman

The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience…

— Guy Kawasaki

Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up…

— Linwood Barclay

...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect…

— Thomas Jefferson

My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I…

— Vera Wang

Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't…

— Bill Gates

You can't exceed the system with language. You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better. You can't…

— Jacque Fresco

I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.

— Jonathan Ive

In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.

— Neri Oxman

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

— Dries van Noten

Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.

— Ai Weiwei

Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

— William Wordsworth

Character, story and plot are affected by any action sequence so you have to really design them accordingly.

— Kari Skogland

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

— Henry Petroski

My home is in West Vancouver, B.C. My husband built it from drawings to design and colour.

— Erica Durance

Sometimes I've been interested in studying fashion design. Just for fun.

— Bill Kaulitz

Design that moves others comes from issues that move you.

— Jennifer Morla

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

— Allen Ginsberg

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

— David Chipperfield

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

— Pierre Bonnard

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

— Jonathan Ive